Word: haunt
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...free Internet access quickly discovered that the network was good for more than official business. They used it to send each other private messages (E-mail) and to post news and information on public electronic bulletin boards (known as Usenet newsgroups). Over the years the Internet became a favorite haunt of graduate students and computer hackers, who loved nothing better than to stay up all night exploring its weblike connections and devising new and interesting things for people to do. They constructed elaborate fantasy worlds with Dungeons & Dragons themes. They built tools for navigating the Net -- like the University...
...words of JoeSchmoe123 may come back to haunt him someday, when it’s least expected, if AOL is subpoenaed for his AIM transcripts or for a listing of his posts on public forums. Perhaps, entangled in messy separations, angry divorcées will begin calling for their philandering husbands’ online conversations to inflate their settlements. Lives will be ruined and public humiliation imminent, all for seemingly innocuous words typed many years...
...global vocabulary. And it’s a language that cuts across all cultures…America is a culture of amnesia, and to me, a lot of issues pop up precisely because of that; the more we forget history, the more it seems to come back and haunt...
Cruikshank says his characters “are not based on real people,” even though the mystery is largely set in Cruikshank’s old haunt...
...most fateful moment of his life, the words came back to haunt Pantano. It was late afternoon, and darkness was setting in. Pantano and his platoon were on a raid north of Mahmudiyah, not far from Baghdad, acting on a tip about a possible insurgent hideout. As the Marines neared their target, they spotted a car fleeing the area. Pantano's men set up a checkpoint and ordered the car to stop. Inside were two Iraqis. One looked to be in his 30s, the other in his late teens. According to accounts given to TIME by Pantano's civilian lawyer...